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Family and Education
b. c. 1610, 1st s. of Richard Knightley of Burgh Hall, Gnosall, Staffs. and Fawsley, and Jane, da. of Sir Edward Littleton† of Pillaton, Staffs.Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 108. educ. Lincoln Coll. Oxf. 24 Oct. 1628, ‘aged 18’, BA 1 Feb. 1631, MA 8 Dec. 1633;Al. Ox. G. Inn 17 May 1633.G. Inn Admiss. m. (1) 1640, Elizabeth (bur. 1 June 1643), with £2,500, da. of John Hampden* of Great Hampden, Bucks., 1s. 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 22 July 1647 (with £7,000), Anne (d. 28 Jan. 1703), da. of Sir William Courteen, merchant, of London, wid. of Essex Devereux of Leigh Court, Worcs., 1s. 2da.PROB11/200, f. 357v; Cheshire RO, DAR/F/17; Vis. Northants. 108-9; VCH Northants. Fams. 189; Mems. St Margaret’s Church Westminster ed. A. M. Burke, 172, 604. suc. fa. Sept. 1650;Vis. Northants. 108. KB 23 Apr. 1661;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 165. d. 29 June 1661.Vis. Northants. 108.
Offices Held

Local: commr. perambulation, Rockingham Forest, Northants. 8 Aug. 1641; Whittlewood Forest 26 Aug. 1641.C181/5, f. 209. Dep. lt. Northants. by June 1642–?CJ ii. 614a. Commr. defence of Northants. 19 July 1643;LJ vi. 137b, 496b. assessment, 12 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Rad. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; militia, Northants. 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; Westminster 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. by Feb. 1654–d.C181/6, pp. 15, 370; C181/7, pp. 16, 92. J.p. Mdx., Westminster 18 Aug. 1655-Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 316. Northants. by c.Sept. 1656–d.C193/13/6. Commr. sewers, Mdx. 7 July 1657;C181/6, p. 244. Westminster Oct. 1658;C181/6, p. 319. poll tax, Northants., Westminster 1660.SR.

Central: member, cttee. for examinations, 18 Feb., 30 Sept. 1642, 1 Aug. 1643, 16 Oct. 1644;Supra, ‘Committee for Examinations’; CJ ii. 396a, 439b, 789b; iii. 189b, 666b. cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645; Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 1 July 1645;A. and O. cttee. for sale of bishops’ lands, 30 Nov. 1646. Commr. appeals, visitation Oxf. Univ. 1 May 1647.A. and O. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 19 Jan. 1648;CJ v. 327b; LJ ix. 669a. Derby House cttee. 25 May 1648.CJ v. 445b; LJ x. 283a. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649;A. and O. maimed soldiers, 17 Dec. 1660–1.CJ viii. 213b.

Colonial: member, Somers Is. [Bermuda] Co. by Oct. 1644–?d.Mems. of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas ed. J. H. Lefroy (1877), i. 590.

: of Fawsley and Northants., Preston and London., King Street.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KNIGHTLEY, Richard (c.1610-61), of Fawsley and Preston, Northants., and King Street, Covent Garden, London.

Will
admon. 17 Sept. 1661.VCH Northants. Fams. 189.
Estates
at his second marriage, in 1647, his fa. settled on him manor and advowson of Oldborough, Worcs.; capital messuage of Burgh Hall, Gnosnall, manor of Cowley and lands in Coton, Staffs.; manor, rectory impropriate and advowson of Preston Capes, manor of Badby and lands in Charlton and Fawsley, Northants.; and lands in Chetwode, Bucks. – in all, worth £1,000 p.a. Knightley’s estate in 1647 included lands in Great Vaynor, Nantmel, Rad.Cheshire RO, DAR/F/17. In 1650, he purchased, for £1,796, manor of Pyrton, Oxon., from the trustees for the sale of church lands.C54/3559/24. In his will, proved in 1651, Knightley’s fa. charged his estate – which Knightley inherited – with legacies worth approximately £5,000 and annuities of £550.PROB11/215, ff. 42v-43. After his d. Knightley’s estate, which inc. advowsons of Byfield, Fawsley and Preston Capes, Northants., reckoned to be worth about £2,000 p.a.Pepys’s Diary, iii. 84; J. T. Cliffe, The Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700, 43-4.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
King Street, Covent Garden, London (c.1647-d.).Survey of London, xxxvi. 152.
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